Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivation

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Though one has awakened all at once to the same nature as the Buddhas, beginningless habit-energies remain; and so practice must still gradually purify what awakening has already seen.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Bojo Jinul

Lineage: Jogye

By Bojo Jinul

• Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivationpractice-instruction
• The Mind Is Buddhaproverb
• Tracing Back the Radianceproverb
• The Three Mysterious Gatesproverb
• An Ox on the Mountainproverb

From Secrets on Cultivating the Mind

• The Mind Is Buddha
• Samādhi and Prajñā in One Practice

Sources

• contentTracing Back the Radiance: Chinul's Korean Way of Zen — Robert E. Buswell

  Robert E. Buswell Jr.

  pp. 17–97